Mailing List Archive: Install on a Power5 (p5 550)

Install on a Power5 (p5 550)

Nov 9, 2006, 11:19 AM

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Hello all!

I'm new to this world: PowerPC, RISC, 64 bits.
So, it's a newbie doubt...

I'm following this manual
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-ppc64.xml?full=1#book_part1
My question it's about the yaboot and the partitions type.
/dev/sda1: PReP (8MB)
/dev/sda2: swap (1GB)
/dev/sda3: / (30GB)

Questions:
1) What is an PReP partition?
2) How should be my /etc/yaboot.conf like?
Mine was like "Code Listing 6: yaboot.conf for PReP hardware"
default = linux
timeout = 100
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
label=linux
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
append="root=/dev/sda1"
Is it correct?
Guess not, beacuse after it boots up, crashe and restart.
What am I doing wrong?

If you need more information, please ask. I don't know what to say more :)

Thanks,
Rodrigo.
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Re: Install on a Power5 (p5 550) [ In reply to ]

ovidiu at targujiu

Nov 9, 2006, 11:32 AM

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I think root is /dev/sda3.

Rodrigo Monteiro wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm new to this world: PowerPC, RISC, 64 bits.
> So, it's a newbie doubt...
>
> I'm following this manual
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-ppc64.xml?full=1#book_part1
>
> My question it's about the yaboot and the partitions type.
> /dev/sda1: PReP (8MB)
> /dev/sda2: swap (1GB)
> /dev/sda3: / (30GB)
>
> Questions:
> 1) What is an PReP partition?
> 2) How should be my /etc/yaboot.conf like?
> Mine was like "Code Listing 6: yaboot.conf for PReP hardware"
> default = linux
> timeout = 100
> image=/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
> label=linux
> read-only
> root = /dev/sda1
> append="root=/dev/sda1"
> Is it correct?
> Guess not, beacuse after it boots up, crashe and restart.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> If you need more information, please ask. I don't know what to say
> more :)
>
> Thanks,
> Rodrigo.

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Re: Install on a Power5 (p5 550) [ In reply to ]

michael.stilson at wmich

Nov 9, 2006, 12:08 PM

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Ovidiu Bivolaru wrote:
> I think root is /dev/sda3.

agreed. most excellent eyes ovidiu, i totally overlooked it the first
time i read through this message. :)

rodrigo, please change the "root" and "append" param values from:

>> root = /dev/sda1
>> append="root=/dev/sda1"

to

root = /dev/sda3
append="root=/dev/sda3"

and see if that fixes the current hang up.

good luck

> Rodrigo Monteiro wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I'm new to this world: PowerPC, RISC, 64 bits.
>> So, it's a newbie doubt...
>>
>> I'm following this manual
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-ppc64.xml?full=1#book_part1
>>
>> My question it's about the yaboot and the partitions type.
>> /dev/sda1: PReP (8MB)
>> /dev/sda2: swap (1GB)
>> /dev/sda3: / (30GB)
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1) What is an PReP partition?
>> 2) How should be my /etc/yaboot.conf like?
>> Mine was like "Code Listing 6: yaboot.conf for PReP hardware"
>> default = linux
>> timeout = 100
>> image=/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
>> label=linux
>> read-only
>> root = /dev/sda1
>> append="root=/dev/sda1"
>> Is it correct?
>> Guess not, beacuse after it boots up, crashe and restart.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> If you need more information, please ask. I don't know what to say
>> more :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rodrigo.
>
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